Introduction

Get Connected SMC helps San Mateo County residents understand what assistance programs they may be eligible for. The concept is to combine the ease of use of Get CalFresh with the power of the directory information found in SMC Connect.

Here's an example of a commercial product we could use as a model: https://www.mrelief.com/#?category=All

Access to Food

The first service area will be access to food. We will incorporate WIC, County food banks, and schools for referrals.

Requirements from County Human Services Agency (HSA)

On the front end ask for family size, income, then ask if they are kids under 5 for WIC and maybe older adults for Meals On Wheels and then if someone doesn't qualify for anything of the federal programs, then we can direct them to the 8 CORE agencies and Food Bank and also suggest to parents that they can ask their schools for free and reduced meals

Determining eligibility

From State Department of Public Health (CDPH)

• ACS data were used to determine WIC eligibility among children < 5 years of age.
• Children were categorized as: Income Eligible if they were living in families with total household income less than or equal to 185% FPL Adjunctively Eligible if they had income higher than 185% FPL, or were missing income information, and participated in CalFresh or were covered by Medi-Cal insurance during the past 12 months.
• Ineligible if they did not meet the criteria for income or adjunctive eligibility.
• Current federal poverty level numbers: https://liheapch.acf.hhs.gov/news/july16/FPG.htm

To do

• [x] Collect eligibility requirements
  • [ ] Health Insurance
  • [ ] Medi-Cal
  • [ ] Medicare
  • [ ] Veterans
  • [x] WIC (Women, Infants, & Children)
• [x] Decision tree for eligibility for each requirements set
• [x] User experience flow depending on decision tree
• [ ] Front end interface for users to determine likely eligibility

Getting started

Note: You must have git and npm installed first

1. git clone https://github.com/opensmc/get-connected-smc.git
2. cd get-connected-smc/wic
3. npm install
4. npm start
5. Open http://localhost:3000, if it doesn't already open for you

Public site

You can see the site live: http://wic.surge.sh/